Apterous may be down for maintenance at the moment, but I'll attempt to tide you all over with a blast from the past. Below, seemingly for the first time since 2008, I've provided a conundrum alphabet -- a set of 26 conundrum scrambles, each of which has a solution that begins with a different letter of the alphabet. Good luck solving them all, and bonus points if you can identify why they're in this order!

Apterous may be down for maintenance at the moment, but I'll attempt to tide you all over with a blast from the past. Below, seemingly for the first time since 2008, I've provided a conundrum alphabet -- a set of 26 conundrum scrambles, each of which has a solution that begins with a different letter of the alphabet. Good luck solving them all, and bonus points if you can identify why they're in this order!

Am impressed that you guys have dug this up -- and even more impressed that all the answers are still valid conundrums after the number the ODO people have been doing on the dictionary recently!

Good work to all. Bra was correct with all of his answers except those to #20, #23 and #25 (thus, 17 correct total), and quite close with all the incorrect ones. Toby got these three correct, as well as #04 and #26. Ray then cracked #22, Jonathan #01, and Stephen #13, leaving only the elusive #15 (initial T) -- will anyone dare to take a shot at it?